Clothespin



T. EINARSON CLOTHESPIN Filed June 26. 1925 Patented Feb. 22, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLOTHESPIN.

Application filed. June 26, 1925.

This invention relates to improvements in clothes pins.

The object of this invention is to provide a practical clothes pin madeof a single piece of non-corrosive wire or a piece of steel wire treatedwith cadmium or some other rust resisting substance.

Another object is to construct such a clothes pin in a relatively simplemanner as described in the accompanying drawing and specification.

In the drawing- Figure 1 is a plan View of a clothes pin designed inaccordance with my invention;

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the clothes pin;

Figure 3 is a plan View of an operation in making the clothes pin,showing a piece of wire partially bent and twisted in its media]portion; V

Figure 4; is a. detail of an operation showing one loop of the clothespin shown in Figure 3 passed through the opposite loop in forming thetwisted portion into a spring loop.

'lhe invention is carried out by ine-ans of a.- piece of non-corrosivewire or a piece of steel wire which is treated with cadmium or somesimilar rust resisting substance. The said wire 1 is formed into theshape of an 8, and has its ends 2 of such a length so as to lap in itsmedia] portion "in order to permit twisting the same into each other asshown at 3 and thus forming loops 1 and 5 as shown in Figure 3. The loop4; is slightly twisted toward the vertical center of the loop 5 so as topermit passing the said loop 4 through the loop 5 in order to form aspring loop (3 as shown in Figures 1 and 4.

Serial No. 39,664.

After they said spring loop 6 has been formed, the loops 4 and 5 are sobent as to bear against each other and thus form a clamping means asshown in Figure 1; the medial portions of the loops are curved towardseach other as at 7; the terminal portions of the loops are bent so as tobe adapted to lie in engagement with each other as at 8; the springtension of the loop 6 thus acts to cause the said terminal portions 8 toact as a clamping means as shown in Figure 1.

Vhile I have herein described a certain specific manner and method ofconstructing and assembling the elements of my invention. it isunderstood that I may vary from the same in minor details not departingfrom the spirit of my invention, so as best to constructa practicaldevice for the purpose ing slightly twisted toward the Vertical een- Ater of the other loop so astopermit passing the one loop through theother: the one loop' being then further bent around the other so as toform the said medial portion of the said wire into a spring loop: themedial portions of the loops being then curved. towards each other andthe terminal portions thereof being adapted to lie in engagement witheach other so as to form a clamping means.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

THORVARDUR EINARSON.

